Mr Chen makes toys from dough. He is over 50 years old now. His hands are rough because he works with dough 【小题1】.

Mr Chen makes dough 【小题2】. A small piece of dough and some simple tools 【小题3】 to make a dough toy. Mr Chen uses his hands to turn the dough into different characters, for example the Monkey King. Dough of different colours is used to make the toys 【小题4】.

I like Mr Chen’s toys because they are very lovely. I hope that 【小题5】 I can learn to make dough toys.

The “Four Treasures of the Study” (文房四宝) is a general name of the main traditional writing tools of Chinese calligraphy (书法), i. e. writing brush, ink, ink stone, and paper.

The writing brush is a special writing and painting tool in 【小题1】 China. Brushes are generally made of animal hair. It is believed that Chinese people first used rabbit hair 【小题2】 brushes.

Ink is a black 【小题3】 used in calligraphy and painting. It appeared later than the writing brush. After the Han and Wei Dynasties, ink-making technology became more and more developed, and Huizhou became the 【小题4】 ink-making center in the Ming Dynasty. The “Hui Ink” produced there is famous all over the world.

Paper making was 【小题5】 in the Western Han Dynasty and improved by Cai Lun during the Eastern Han Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, more and more 【小题6】 of paper appeared. The most famous one is Xuan paper. The color of Xuan paper doesn’t change easily, 【小题7】 it’s known as the “thousand-year-old paper”.

The inkstone is 【小题8】 made of stones. In the Qing Dynasty, people carved (雕刻) some patterns on it. Since then, the inkstone has not only been practical, but also had the value of collection and appreciation (鉴赏).

The development of China’s traditional culture and art are closely 【小题9】 to the “Four Treasures of the Study”. In that 【小题10】 , the “Four Treasures of the Study” is an important part of traditional Chinese culture.